Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 months 4 weeks ago • 221 views • 9:55

From Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"

posted by w1ndex 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 235 views • 12:15

From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 764 views • 8:41

So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.

posted by noims 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 110 views • 2:40

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 4 months ago • 331 views • 5:24

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 11 months ago • 151 views • 15:51

YouTube description: Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. (via laughingsquid.com, H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 403 views • 10:13

Scientists have JUST published this new observation. On January 4th, 2017 they detected the merger of two black holes 3 billion light-years away. This marks the furthest detection they've been able to... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 507 views • 5:02

Is it a bird? A plane? A supernova? No! It turned out to be something else! We've also now studied the weather on a gas giant exoplanet!

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 199 views • 4:47

One thing I should point out is that Mr. Manley consistently gets Karl Schwarzschild's name wrong. It's Schwarz Schild (black shield) and pronounced more like shield (except the d is a t sound and it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 1,050 views • 8:00

WooHoo! Hank said Washington State! YouTube: Last week, it was announced that we've detected gravitational waves on Earth. Now, Hank explains what that means for the future and why it's such a huge deal.

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 562 views • 4:39

The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

posted by blacklotus90 6 years 6 months ago • 778 views • 4:36

The team at kurzgesagt explain black holes, or at least, as much as we know about them... the mysterious, weird, terrifying bastards they are!

posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 8 months ago • 228 views • 5:56

"But the black hole wouldn't stop with just you ... "

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 weeks ago • 639 views • 3:38

A number so epic it will collapse your brain into a black hole! Yet Tony Padilla and Matt Parker take the risk of discussing its magnitude. Watch with caution. See also our video about the Googol and... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 3 months ago • 3,047 views • 9:16

The Sixty Symbols team talks about what happens when black holes collide. Then they discuss sunsets and if they enjoy it just for the beauty of it, or if they are thinking about the science of it when... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 9 months ago • 2,246 views